Conservationists from around the world will gather in Keystone, Colo., July 7-10, to discuss ecosystem management. The 51st annual conference of the Soil and Water Conservation Society, Rocky Mountain Rendezvous: Renew Yourself in the High Country, features speakers Wainwright Verlarde of the Jicarilla Apache Tribe and Forest Service Chief Jack Ward Thomas. Contact Nancy Herselius […]
Books
Posted inMay 27, 1996: Utah ushers its frogs toward oblivion
Biodiversity Protection: Implementation and Reform of the Endangered Species Act
Biological diversity and the Endangered Species Act are hot topics and the themes of the University of Colorado School of Law’s 17th Annual Summer Conference, Biodiversity Protection: Implementation and Reform of the Endangered Species Act, June 9-12, in Boulder, Colo. For more information, contact Katherine Taylor, Natural Resources Law Center, Campus Box 401, Boulder, CO […]
Posted inMay 27, 1996: Utah ushers its frogs toward oblivion
It’s Chase who’s lost in the dark wood
In a Dark Wood: The Fight Over Forests and the Rising Tyranny of Ecology, by Alston Chase, Houghton Mifflin, $29.95. Review by Alan Pistorius Alston Chase’s new book sets out to chronicle the continuing fight between the timber industry and environmentalists over old-growth forest in the Pacific Northwest and to determine why, in his view, […]
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Hands across the water
More than 30 Japanese volunteers who built a boardwalk and overlook at Washington’s Mount Rainier National Park are coming back this summer to revegetate trampled meadows. While Japan is not known for environmentalism, these teachers, engineers, nurses and other professionals have formed a Tokyo-based group, Japan Volunteers in Parks Association. They responded to a letter […]
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Pennies on the Railroad
The annual Wild Idaho! conference at Redfish Lake on May 17-19 is called Pennies On The Railroad, in reference to the flattened condition of Idaho environmentalism this year. Panel discussion will focus on the dysfunctional management of the Endangered Species Act and the effects of salvage logging on streams and wildlife. Louisa Willcox of the […]
Posted inApril 29, 1996: A park boss goes to bat for the land
Wildlife and Trail Recreation
Can mountain bikers and wildlife coexist? Find out at a conference on Wildlife and Trail Recreation: Integrating Demands in the Wild/Urban Interface, hosted by the San Juan National Forest Association, May 10-11 in Durango, Colo. John Mumma, director of the Colorado Division of Wildlife, will give the keynote address. To register, call the San Juan […]
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MountainFilm Festival
Telluride, Colo., hosts the 18th annual MountainFilm Festival May 24-27, featuring over 40 films plus seminars and discussions with the film makers. Speakers include Dick Durrance, captain of the first U.S. Olympic skiing team in 1936, and Paul Watson, head of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. For more information and tickets, contact MountainFilm at 970/728-4123. […]
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Talking Gourds Retreat
Poets and performing artists are invited to join author Dolores LaChapelle for the 1996 Talking Gourds Retreat, an artists’ workshop on “deep ecology,” hosted by the Telluride Writer’s Guild and the Ah Haa School for the Arts. The gathering, held June 28-30 at the Faraway Ranch near Telluride, Colo., includes performances and drumming. Call Judy […]
Posted inApril 29, 1996: A park boss goes to bat for the land
Letter to Edward Abbey from Earth: A Review
Dear Ed, You won’t, or probably you will, believe what’s currently happening in the West: Too many of us, a commercialized landscape “- all your worst predictions have come true. We’ve finally caught up with your predictions, your “good news.” Armed militias call the West their home – white-guy losers in Montana and Idaho who […]
Posted inApril 29, 1996: A park boss goes to bat for the land
Navajo role model
The group responsible for monitoring environmental issues on the Navajo Reservation, Diné CARE, has chosen Christine Benally as its new director. Benally earned a doctorate in environmental health from Colorado State University and has been involved with Diné CARE, an acronym for Citizens Against Ruining Our Environment, since 1991. The group’s first project was to […]
Posted inApril 29, 1996: A park boss goes to bat for the land
Yard Sale
The Uintah Mountain Club in Vernal, Utah, is a small but active group, and it produces one of the best newsletters we get to see. The April issue annouces that members Denise and Jon Hughes will have a “yard sale, literally,” on May 5 at 2554 South 500 East. Bring a shovel and $2 per […]
Posted inApril 29, 1996: A park boss goes to bat for the land
Burning down the house
Under a new federal policy, fire managers will be allowed to put protection of natural resources ahead of property when they battle blazes on public lands. That policy is the major contribution of a new report issued jointly by the departments of Interior and Agriculture. “In the past people expected their homes to take priority,” […]
Posted inApril 29, 1996: A park boss goes to bat for the land
Wild Rockies Online
If you’re hungry for more environmental resources on the Internet, there’s a new World Wide Web site that’s sure to keep you connected – in more ways than one. The Wild Rockies Slate, launched into cyberspace last December, features up-to-date information on the issues, organizations and ecology of the northern Rocky Mountains. A project of […]
Posted inApril 29, 1996: A park boss goes to bat for the land
Healing a dirty town
Chip Ward, an environmental activist from Grantsville, Utah, started the West Desert Healthy Environment Alliance (HEAL) because citizens noticed abnormally high rates of illness in town. But when the group approached the state Bureau of Epidemiology for information, the agency said that though cancer rates were high, its research showed no discernible pattern among the […]
Posted inApril 15, 1996: Raising a ranch from the dead
Take a seat
By the beginning of the 1996 school year, the University of Denver’s Graduate School of Public Affairs will choose a professor to hold the Timothy E. Wirth Chair in Environmental and Community Development Policy. The chair honors the former Colorado senator who is currently undersecretary of state for global affairs, appointed by President Bill Clinton. […]
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Retreat
-It is better to conquer yourself than win a thousand battles.” “The Buddha. The Vallecitos Mountain Refuge in New Mexico’s Carson Forest will hold three eight-day meditation retreats from August through September for environmental and social activists. Not for networking or strategizing, these retreats provide silence, meditation training and spiritual renewal for a limited number […]
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Stop the flooding
The devastating floods that swamped Oregon early this year could be reduced in the future by restoring former wetlands and woodlands in the Willamette River floodplain. That’s the conclusion of a study commissioned by River Network, a Portland, Oregon-based conservation group. The 60-page study, written primarily by Kevin Coulton of Philip Williams & Associates, an […]
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Christensen goes quarterly
In the maiden issue of Great Basin News, editor and publisher Jon Christensen lays out the mission: “We believe the time is right to bring the Great Basin together to understand itself, to relish its own iconoclastic visions, to ponder its own quirky fate. You might consider this a test of that idea.” Christensen, who […]
Posted inApril 15, 1996: Raising a ranch from the dead
Malpractice as usual
Taxpayers are paying the price because Forest Service officials in California handed out timber contracts without adequate environmental reviews, according to a report from the Washington, D.C.-based Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). Business As Usual: A Case Study of Environmental and Fiscal Malpractice on the Eldorado National Forest describes how top managers weren’t penalized […]
Posted inApril 15, 1996: Raising a ranch from the dead
Rendezvous at Cove-Mallard
The Cove-Mallard logging area in central Idaho, scene of protests and arrests, may attract 500 people for this year’s Earth First! Rendezvous, June 30 through July 7. The event marks the group’s fifth year of campaigning to save trees in the largest roadless area in the lower 48 states. Mike Roselle, one of Earth First!’s […]